• Instructional Practice Guides: guides for the teacher to use to judge his/her use of the Common Care instruction and practices of the teacher

• 2015-16 LA DOE Assessment Guidance Page

CCSS SAMPLE ASSESSMENTS

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks/ - Smarter Balanced Grades 3-8

CCSS ASSESSMENT GUIDES

http://www.louisianabelieves.com/assessment/grades-3-8-assessments

Informative Sites - Whats and Whys of the CCS /PARCC

• http://www.corestandards.orgCommon Core Standards
• http://www.edutopia.org/common-core-state-standards-resourcesEdutopia resources for information about the CCS
• http://achievethecore.org

PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) MODEL CONTENT FRAMEWORK:: This site is http://www.parcconline.org/resources/educator-resources for teachers to inform themselves about the new assessment that will be given to the students.

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Ideas for Implementing the CCS

• http://catlintucker.com/2012/05/10-tech-tools-to-effectively-teach-the-common-core-standards-english-math/11 sites with examples of how the sites can be used to implement the CCS
• http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/Links in purple on the left side of the website have TONS of information of how North Carolina is implementing the CCS
• Wiki-TeacherSign up for a free account and then check out "Unwrapped Standards"
• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos - videos that have CCSS model lessons for all grade levels and disciplines
• http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHuntInstitute- compilation of videos that deal with the Common Core Standards
• CURRICULUM EXEMPLARS FROM Engage NY for ELA/literacy and Mathematics:https://www.engageny.org/search-site?search=exemplars: provides examples to model lessons after
• Tulare County ELA CCSS Site - scroll down for benchmarks and templates
• Odell Education Units, lessons and resources for teacher and students on using text to ask and create text dependent questions

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Teacher Videos about the CCS

• http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-video-series/
• http://lpb.pbslearningmedia.org/content/#q=common+core
• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos - videos that have CCSS model lessons for all grade levels and disciplines
• http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHuntInstitute- compilation of videos that deal with the Common Core Standards

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ELA/Literacy Information

• http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_A.pdfThis is an overview of the publisher’s criteria for ELA details specific criteria for aligning instructional materials with the Common Core State Standards. It is organized around "key shifts" of the CCSS for ELA/Literacy.
  • K-2 link is: http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Publishers_Criteria_for_K-2.pdf
  • 3-12 link is: http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Publishers_Criteria_for_3-12.pdf

Content Shifts

• An overview of the shifts in ELA/literacy and Mathematics can be found at https://www.engageny.org/resource/common-core-shifts

> Content Shift: Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary

• Webinar on text complexity: - Click on "WebEx Recording"; Check out "Webinar Resources" - lots of .pdf files

QUANTATIVE MEASURES
ATOS: www.arbookfind.com or www.renlearn.com/ar/overview/atos
LEXILE:www.lexile.com/fab or www.lexile.com/analyzer

> Content Shift: Reading and writing grounded in evidence from the text

• Creating text-dependent questions guide and exemplar lessons: www.achievethecore.org

*Additional sites:
http://bit.ly/prereading
http://bit.ly/closereading
http://bit.ly/thinkingnotes
http://bit.ly/artofquestioning

SRA Imagine It! CORRELATION to CCCS

SRA eLiteracy Handbook

Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade

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Writing

• http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-standards-for-ela-literacy-samples-of-student-writing/ Examples of student's writings for ELA/Literacy

Writing Samples from California for grades k-12

PARCC Writing Standards Progressions